St. Marys News

Gov. Mark Parkinson will propose increasing Kansas tobacco taxes next year, a spokeswoman said this week.The Democratic governors plan is likely to face strong opposition in the Republican-controlled Legislature, although the Senates top leader said he would support the idea.Parkinson spokeswoman Beth Martino said Wednesday that the governor hasnt ...

Here's John D'Aloia's "Trackside" column for December 20, 2009. In this article, John traces through the pervasiveness of taxation in many common products, and how long we must work each year to pay these taxes.

The Emmett community will wait another month to find out if its grade school will survive budget cuts.

Action on whether to close Emmett Grade School in Pottawatomie County was postponed for a month at Monday night's meeting of the Kaw Valley Unified School District 321 board of education.

Last week students at St. Marys and Emmett schools received H1N1 flu vaccines, and more schools across Pottawatomie County will receive the vaccine this week from the county health department.

Parents are fighting a USD 321 board decision to close the 74 student Emmett Grade School.

Guest speaker Leni Salkind, left, past president of the Lawrence Jewish Community Center, and University of Kansas religious studies professor Tim Miller are amused by a student's comment during a question-and-answer segment at a recent Religion in Kansas class session.

Hip hop artist Flip Francis and Kyle Heimann of the band Popple perform together as dozens of youths listen.

The Topeka Community Foundation has announced the recipients of its Prevention, Intervention and Education grants.

Army Spc. Francisco De la Serna has always been somewhat of a wild card, unpredictable even to his close-knit family.

One of the Army medics who helped victims of last week's shootings at Fort Hood is from the Topeka area.

Residents of the Pottawatomie County community of Emmett will get to weigh in on the proposed closing of their town's grade school at a special hearing next month.

Emmett Grade School head teacher David Steele and parent Amy VandeVelde talk Wednesday about the ramifications of closing Emmett Grade School in Pottawatomie County.

Kansas State Board of Education members learned Tuesday that for the ninth straight year, Kansas students have steadily made gains in reading and math.

Gail Nichols has suffered from depression for years. When the 49-year-old resident of St.

The Kansas Department of Transportation says beacons are to be installed by this fall at the site of a fatal accident west of Mayetta.

Manhattan debates alcohol sales on Sundays. Manhattan storeowners say nearby communities, like Ogden and Wamego, are taking their business by allowing Sunday sales, and they want to even out the playing field.

No, Shirley Phelps-Roper won't be seeing the new film, "Bruno." But she is in it.

It looked like destruction, because it was. But progress has a way of disguising itself sometimes.

Many of the twenty-one people arrested in 'Operation White Pistol' are being held at the Shawnee County Department of Corrections Twenty-one people from across the state of Kansas are behind bars tonight for drug trafficking.